September has come and gone, and honestly, it’s brought a lot of changes. By the time I realized it was October already and we were supposed to start the second #slowbusinessexperiment, the first week of October was almost over. And that in and of itself is a testament to how profound of an effect the first experiment had on my life.

Because, you see, somehow the 30 minutes per day on Instagram turned into an exercise of Essentialism - something I will talk about here at some point in the future - which in turn led to a decision I’d been pondering for a while: Hitting pause on my coaching. Or, at least, hitting pause on proactively talking about my coaching and doing my monthly Patreon videos.

Hello lovelies! September is almost here which means it's the start of our first Slow Business Experiment! I was so excited to read all your comments on Instagram and get a few wonderful messages from people who are as excited as I am about starting this.

(If you're just discovering the Slow Business Experiment series now, may I suggest you start with this blog post?)

30 minutes on Instagram per day.

And this is why I decided I want to embark on a small series of what I call "Slow Business Experiments".

They're tiny projects that address bits and pieces of my businesses that feel decidedly non-slow to me (IG rabbit hole, anyone?). They're things I want to do for a month, regularly see how they change the way I see myself and my business, and figure out whether they're worth keeping around for longer.

The first of these experiments is going to start at the beginning of September, and I'd love to invite you to join me. I'm going to do the experiment no matter what, but it would be amazing to not be alone on this journey.

These past weeks I haven't felt like myself. I felt anxious and insecure and spread too thin, I took things too easily too personally, was on the verge of tears at the smallest challenge and snapped at every. single. person. I love.

The really bad thing about all of that? None of my usual "get me back to myself" measures helped, and I felt the dark cloud coming closer and closer. So I resorted to a cry for help to our community on Instagram and asked you what you do when you feel like that. Over the course of the next few hours, an incredible amount of amazing ideas landed in my Instagram inbox.